Landfill Report

I know it’s a little late, but I finally read your editorial, “Report on County’s Landfills Offers Solid Base for Planning” (Jan 28), and I’m appalled that you never mentioned the No. 1 way to reduce the size and number of landfills--recycling. Out of a normal week’s worth of garbage, recycling cut my household refuse from one garbage can to barely one-eighth of a can. If our recycling programs were vigorously pursued, we could do the same to the size and number of landfills. How dare you advocate burning waste (cough, cough) when recycling can solve the problem cleanly and cheaply.

DAVID V. GREGOLI

Encino